No but there are basically two ways things can go:
- The Fediverse stays tiny. It will probably be non-commercial, such a tiny userbase isn’t attractive to for-profit companies.
- It blows up, getting big. This makes Meta really the smallest problem, as the bigger thing to worry about will be the sheer amount of corporations setting up activity-pub based applications and commercializing as much of the system as possible.
blue_berry@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I mean, that was a leap ahead, but there are currently a few companies directing towards the fediverse: Meta, Wordpress, Medium, Mozilla, Flipchart. Also look at the most recent The Verge arcticles about the fediverse, they are also pushing the point that the social web will be a growing market in 2024 (theverge.com/…/social-media-2023-fediverse-mastod…).
You could say that this is all hype, but I think its clear the “hobby phase” of the Fediverse is beginning to end and a new phase starts.
F_Haxhausen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They will take everything and shit on it.
What’s the point in being here if the corporations are coming here?
capital@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Do you people want others on fedi or not? Jesus Christ.
F_Haxhausen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I just thought the fediverse was going to be free of corporate/advertising/tracking shit-show.
If it isn’t going to be free of corporate bullshit why be here instead of Instagram or Twitter or Facebook?
What is the difference? None.
I used to care. But now? I don’t care where people go on the internet. Why be invested in fediverse if the fediverse is just another FaceBook?
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
We’ll probably have to move to a new internet. Dibs on calling it the “Freediverse”.
F_Haxhausen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Before, in the olden times, the internet was just a bunch of random websites and forums and IRC AND USEnet.
Now it’s, “Where SHOULD I GO to be seen others and be validated?!?!”
I sound old. And I am. But,